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22 “When you collect the harvest of your land, you shall not gather it right up to the corners of the field, nor shall you gather up the gleanings of your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the Lord, your God.”

23 New Year’s Day.[a] The Lord said to Moses, 24 “Speak to the children of Israel saying: On the first day of the seventh month you shall observe a Sabbath, a memorial with the blowing of trumpets, a holy assembly.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 23:23 This feast was a survival of rural customs and was more popular than the religious New Year in spring that was part of the Levitical calendar.